[Python-Dev] Python strptime

[Guido van Rossum]

> I have implemented strptime in pure Python (SF patch #474274) as a drop-in
> replacement for the time module's version, but there is the issue of the
> time module being a C extension.  Any chance of getting a Python module
> stub for time (assuming this patch is good enough to be accepted)?
> 
> There is also obviously the option of doing something like a time2, but is
> there enough other time-manipulating Python code out there to warrant
> another module?  It could be used for housing naivetime and any other code
> that does not directly stem from some ANSI C function.

I think this should be done, but I have no time to review your
strptime implementation.  Can you submit (to the same patch item) a
patch for timemodule.c that adds a callout to your Python strptime
code when HAVE_STRPTIME is undefined?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)